now i can stop listening to "wedding bell blues" on repeat

a little late-breaking news, dear readers: i'm officially off the market. it's true. i, Megan Elizabeth, the slowest blooming flower in the garden, got engaged the day before Thanksgiving.

engaged.

i know!

oh sure, it was eight years in the making, and i did know it was coming, but still there was a part of me that wondered. i suppose a girl never knows for sure until she's been formally asked. but that i was, on the observation deck of the Empire State Building around three-thirty in the afternoon last Wednesday. it was a chilly, overcast day but the sinking sun was beaming through a break in the clouds, lighting up a lovely little part of the Hudson River and i thought i'd never seen anything so beautiful.

that is, until Michael got down on one knee and presented me with the most perfect proposal and a ring to match.

it's safe to say i've been smiling now for six days straight.

back in September i downloaded the awesome 5th Dimension song, "Wedding Bell Blues," sort of as an inside joke between me and myself. most mornings on my walk back from the gym i'd play it on my iPod and it invariably made me smile.

but now... now it no longer applies. hmm. perhaps it's time to download "Going to the Chapel..."

mb